Why SAP Business ByDesign?

Because the cloud-based business management software support everything from finance to CRM – and is available anytime, anywhere, on almost any device. It helps medium-sized businesses seize new opportunities and accelerate growth – and it helps subsidiaries take advantage of head office resources, while keeping their flexibility.

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Project Management
Manage projects of any size and complexity with SAP Business ByDesign. Facilitate collaboration – and make it easy for your teams to manage, deliver, and monitor projects in real time.

Mid-Market Businesses
SAP Business ByDesign helps medium-sized businesses seize new opportunities, quickly adapt to change, and improve overall business performance. The ERP cloud software is globally available and can support changing business models, international expansion, and success in new markets.

On demand: Ready to run when you are

Insightful: Empowers your people with real-time analytics

Extensible: Adapts to your business needs

Intuitive: Improves user adoption and productivity

Mobile: Delivers anytime, anywhere access to business information

Global: Operational in 90+ countries

Subsidiaries of Large Enterprises
Maximise visibility, efficiency, and control across your subsidiaries with a single ERP application. Our two-tier, cloud-based business management software is ideally suited for large corporations with sales, distribution, or service-type subsidiaries. It seamlessly combines the resources and stability of your corporate office with the flexibility and local insight of your branches.

Manage multiple subsidiaries according to each of their unique needs, structures, and processes

Minimise the cost and effort involved with adding, divesting, and managing subsidiaries

Improve integration and collaboration between your corporate organisation and subsidiaries

Get up and running quickly – and avoid the large capital outlays required for on-premise software

Create service requests, opportunities and leads from incoming e-mails and appointments

Flexibility to download business data in Microsoft excel. Capabilities to write back data from excel into the ByDesign system

Input-Output Management

Generate documents in print, fax, e-mail

Generate external communication of business content and export across different output channels like e-mail, print, fax etc.

Allow users to setup task notifications via e-mail

Key User Capabilities & End-User Personalisation

Personalise the SAP Business ByDesign solution as per the user preferences

Personalise quick links, the latest news, embedded reports

Adjust the layout of a screen section or a mashup as in all screens

Allow key users to adapt the theme, company logo and add custom fields according to the business needs. These adaptations could be used in forms, reports, user interfaces (UIs), or integration within the scope of the project

Workflow Configuration

Define multi-step approvals according to your business processes using work distribution rules

Create customised rules for notifications or e-mails based on your business scenarios

Collaboration Window

Collaboration Window is a desktop integration tool that acts as a central hub for people-to-people collaboration and for external devices and services. It enables communication with business partners using communication channels such as e-mail, and it provides business context information relevant to a business partner and workflow. It also provides information on missed alerts, tasks, and notifications in the ByDesign system, as well as on missed calls if an add-in telephony integration solution has been integrated with SAP Business ByDesign.

Provides capabilities for user to create an incident (with automatic collection of diagnostic data) from any screen of ByDesign. The created incident can be tracked and processed without the need of any external tool. Additionally, integration with enterprise search enables users to search for similar incidents or solutions & troubleshooting information.

Enterprise Search

Enterprise search allows search through the entire ByDesign solution. Creation of tags/sticky notes on any screen and also search them using enterprise search.

Business Analytics

Using the extensive and flexible business analytics feature, it is possible to easily create custom reports using the guided procedures. It also allows to control the visibility of the reports by assigning them only to specific users/roles.

Business Configuration

Adopt the solution to meet the day-to-day business requirements at any time in the lifecycle of the solution without the need of technical skills.

Mass Processing & Scheduling Capabilities

Support for mass processing of business data which can be scheduled to execute in background. The reoccurrence scheduling capabilities can be utilised to execute the processing periodically at defined intervals.

Help Center/Learning Center

Along with basic concepts of ByDesign, get access to quick guides, business background, how-to information. Also connect with communities and troubleshooting documents, navigation patterns and tasks based on the role of the user.

Security

With capabilities like secured e-mail, scan all incoming and outgoing documents for viruses and authorisation based service consumption. Support to single sign-on capability makes Business ByDesign a secured product.

System requirements for SAP Business ByDesign

System and software requirements vary according to specific customer scenarios. Please refer to the system and software requirements overview for a list of supported devices, hardware, operating systems, apps, and browsers.

Affordable subscription-based pricing

SAP Business ByDesign is licensed through monthly subscription fees calculated on a named-user basis. There are three categories of users: self-service users, team users, and enterprise users – and pricing and functionality vary for each.

With SAP Business ByDesign, you don’t need to worry about software system maintenance. All core services such as backup, recovery, and regular upgrades are covered by SAP and included in the monthly fee. You can choose to deploy the complete solution – or you can address your immediate business needs first and add functionality as required.

Partner extensions for SAP Business ByDesign

SAP and our partners offer more than 500 pre-packaged, fully integrated solution extensions for SAP Business ByDesign. The extensions deliver industry-specific and other processes – and are available in the SAP Store.

See what our customers are saying

Devialet

Devialet is a manufacturer of high end speaker systems. SAP Business ByDesign is helping them manage their business more effectively as they grow from a small company to a major player in audio market.

Intravacc

Intravacc is an experienced, not-for-profit R&D organisation. They optimise vaccines, vaccine processes and vaccine technologies with the aim of reducing costs of new vaccines and increasing access to vaccines worldwide. SAP Business ByDesign provides Intravacc better visibility and control over their business so that their 150 scientists can do what they do best, make the world a better place.

Skullcandy

Skullcandy is a leading audio brand that reflects the collision of the music, fashion and action sports lifestyles. Explore their journey as a growing small business into a strong mid-size global competitor using the advantages of SAP end-to-end across the organisation with SAP ByDesign.

Living Proof

How does this high-end hair care products company grow quickly and profitably – without an IT department or a large workforce? By using SAP Business ByDesign to manage all aspects of their business in the cloud.

Support

Get the support you need to keep SAP Business ByDesign running at peak performance. Our experts can help you maximise the value of your software, take advantage of new business models and capabilities, and more.

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